SSAS Reporting Action with Date Parameters
Reporting Actions in Analysis Services allows you to open a report in Reporting Services. Most of the time users want...
2014-01-22 (first published: 2014-01-20)
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Blog Posts
The “most_recent_sql_handle” column
While researching my last post I ran across an interesting column I hadn’t noticed before, sys.dm_exec_connections.most_recent_sql_handle. I mentioned it in...
2014-01-22
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Tip: Jobs without a scheduled run
It’s awfully comforting to see all those backup and maintenance jobs in your SQL Agent list, isn’t it? It’d be...
2014-01-22
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Using multiple CTEs in one query
This is a fairly simple thing to do, but I had to look it up the other day and thought...
2014-01-22
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Volunteers Needed For PASS SUMMIT
Last night I submitted my application to volunteer for the 2014 PASS Summit Program Committee.
Not know what PASS is? head...
2014-01-22
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Get Rid of These 5 T-SQL Bad Habits with SQL Prompt
We all have bad habits. Maybe we eat too many snacks, spend too much time on the couch watching TV,...
2014-01-21
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Power BI for Office 365 pricing announced
Pricing for Power BI for Office 365 has been announced (see pricing).
It’s all very confusing to me but Melissa Coates does a...
2014-01-21
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SQL Server 2014 – Delayed Durability
Pop quiz: What does ACID stand for?
That should be a pretty easy question for database professionals:
AtomicityConsistencyIsolationDurabilityIt’s that last property, durability,...
2014-01-21 (first published: 2014-01-13)
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Table Hierarchy updated
Recently a need resurfaced to explore the foreign key tree (hierarchy/genealogy) as it related to a specific table within a database. As I pulled out the script from the...
2014-01-21
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Table Hierarchy updated
Recently a need resurfaced to explore the foreign key tree (hierarchy/genealogy) as it related to a specific table within a...
2014-01-21
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Blogs
My Social Media Rules
By Brian Kelley
I developed these rules a while back, before COVID. I had a period of...
Why Use TRY_PARSE(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
Someone asked why I would use TRY_PARSE after I posted a question at SQL...
A Guatemalan's Guide to Drinking Coffee Properly
My mugI grew up surrounded by coffee farms in Guatemala and somehow spent most...
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Partitioning a table with TEXTIMAGE_ON option
I have a table that ends in ON [PRIMARY] TEXTIMAGE_ON [PRIMARY]. I'm about to...
OUTER APPLY Fundamentals: Part 2
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Building Great Software
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Question of the Day
The Range of Customers
I have this data in the OrderHeader table in a SQL Server 2025 database (ordered by CustomerID ASC):
orderid orderdate customerid complete 3 2025-05-10 00:00:00.0002 1 21 2024-01-10 00:00:00.0003 1 15 2023-10-28 00:00:00.0004 1 13 2025-03-08 00:00:00.0006 1 11 2024-04-02 00:00:00.0007 1If I run this query, how many rows are returned?
SELECT * from dbo.OrderHeader where customerid between 3 and '6'See possible answers